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Las singularidades climáticas que se dan en las Azores han servido para que las plantaciones de té en São Miguel sean uno de los atractivos turísticos que visitar en la isla.
De hecho, la peculiaridad es que São Miguel es el único lugar de Europa donde se cultiva esta planta foránea que tanto se consume en el mundo.
Históricamente el té ha sido motivo de conflictos pero también de pequeños placeres. Su consumo se origina en algún lugar de China hace miles de años pero no es hasta el siglo XVII cuando, con el comienzo las grandes exploraciones marítimas, comienza su expansión por Oriente y Europa.
Vasco da Gama fue quien abrió las rutas comerciales que facilitaron la entrada en Europa (y Portugal) de esta planta aromática. Desde ahí pasan algunos siglos hasta que llegan a São Miguel primero como planta ornamental y después como un cultivo extensivo aprovechando el buen clima de la isla.
La fábrica familiar de té de Porto Formoso es un lugar muy tranquilo que transmite mucha paz y es imprescindible tomar un té con miel y unas pastas y sentarse en la terraza tranquilamente mientras observas las vistas a los campos, al mar y a las hortensias.
Well, and after the creation of the island, people came to it and started building houses and villages with their churches.
The sea was their friend, but at the same time their enemy because on the one hand they provided a source of income through fishing, but on the other hand the sea had its terrible quirks and she could rage like a raging rage and devourded houses, villages in short everything what got in her way and therefore also people.
And in order to avoid the seething desolation of the sea, dikes were always built higher, higher and higher, so that you no longer see the villages from the sea side, except for a small part of the church tower........
Martre des pins (Martes martes), Neuchâtel, Suisse.
Découlant d’une longue lignée de petits mammifères, les martres ont gardé plusieurs particularités primitives de leurs ancêtres mustélidés. Leurs habitudes solitaires, leurs capacités d'adaptation et leurs grandes aptitudes de chasseurs ont probablement contribué à les préserver des humains attirés par la beauté de leur fourrure.
La plus ancienne espèce retrouvée qui appartienne à ce genre, Martes vetus, occupait déjà il y a quelque 2,5 millions d'années les spacieuses forêts du Gondwana, le continent primitif. Par contre, sa parenté avec la fouine est nettement moins sûre.
Occupant aussi les régions forestières, la martre européenne, parut en Europe centrale au milieu du pléistocène, il y a peu près un million d'années, puis peu à peu, elle étendit son aire de répartition vers l'Europe de l'Ouest et l'Angleterre. Vers l'est, elle dut s'adapter à de nouvelles conditions de vie et devint Martes zibellina, la zibeline, au-delà des monts de l'Oural, puis Martes melampus au Japon. Il semble que la martre du Japon soit à l'origine de l'espèce américaine.
In evidenza il castello medievale di Montecatini, sovrastato dalla Torre Belforti e dal campanile della chiesa parrocchiale. Sullo sfondo la Val di Cecina e le Colline Metallifere.
Montecatini si trova in provincia di Pisa, a meno di 15 chilometri da Volterra.
Ex paese minerario, per buona parte dell'Ottocento, la sua miniera di rame era considerata la più importante d'Europa. Il Parco Museale di Caporciano rappresenta, oggi, una interessantissima testimonianza , un centro di documentazione indispensabile alla conoscenza della storia del sito minerario da cui nel 1899 prese origine la Società Montecatini (dal 1966 Montedison).
I visited the open Art Museum and noticed that this art piece is very similar to my Gorilla Tripod :-). I took this picture for a fun.
Every design gets inspired by something who knows that the design of this tripod was inspired by this.
Taken on Acropolis in Lindos on the Island of Rhodes in Greece. According to myths the Acropolis is the place where the worship of the hellenistic gods origined. Later this became the worship of the goddess Athena among other gods.
Los estromatolitos poco a poco van enlazando las piedras del río formando figuras como estas.
Estos estromatolitos son estructuras minerales originadas por la actividad metabólica de las cianobacterias presentes en sus aguas.
¿Por qué este río es tan especial para la ciencia?
Durante mucho tiempo las aguas del Tinto se creyeron carentes de vida, hasta el punto de que se plantearon procesos para la limpieza de "su contaminación", que afortunadamente no llegaron a desarrollarse. Y en cierto modo sí que parece un río estéril porque no hay organismos eucariotas superiores en sus aguas; sin embargo, su biodiversidad es enorme: se han descrito más de 1.100 especies distintas de hongos y un centenar de algas, además de protistas y bacterias.
La aparente contaminación del río no es tal, sino que se trata del resultado de un complejo proceso de interacción entre las comunidades bacterianas que lo habitan y el sustrato. Algunas bacterias presentes en el río no obtienen su energía al quemar con oxígeno la glucosa y otros nutrientes como hacemos gran parte de los seres vivos, sino que la obtienen a expensas de los minerales que afloran de la franja pirítica de Huelva.
Por tanto, las condiciones de extrema acidez y de elevadas concentraciones de iones férrico y sulfato en las aguas del Tinto son debidas a la actividad quimiolitotrófica de los microorganismos que lo habitan y que son capaces de oxidar los sulfuros metálicos, en alta concentración en la zona de afloramiento del Tinto.
Lo que hace del Tinto un lugar especial para el estudio de las posibilidades de existencia de vida en Marte es que los seres vivos que lo habitan no han llegado de otros lugares y se han adaptado a este medio tan extremo, sino que han ido evolucionando en el propio río y han ido modulando el medio en el que viven.
El conocimiento de todo esto nos debe llevar a la necesidad de defender la protección de ese ecosistema tan excepcional, por eso es muy lamentable que los vertidos que muy a menudo transforman en los últimos tiempos la coloración de sus aguas (probablemente procedentes del vertedero de residuos tóxicos de Nerva), o la reapertura de la mina estén deteriorándolo muy rápidamente.
Con información procedente de www.espacial.org/planetarias/exobiologia/riotinto1.htm
Alberto González Fairén
Centro de Biología Molecular, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Seminario de Ciencias Planetarias, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Le Château Ollwiller est l’un des deux seuls châteaux en Alsace à produire du vin sous la dénomination « château ».
Il possède le « Clos de la Tourelle », une parcelle agrémentée d’une ancienne tourelle, entièrement plantée avec le cépage pinot blanc.
Le château est à l’origine du nom du Grand Cru Ollwiller.
Son vignoble compte une parcelle de riesling dans le Grand Cru Ollwiller plantée en 1925, bénéficiant de la mention "Vieilles Vigne".
La construction du premier Château Ollwiller en alsace , remonte au XIIIe siècle par les comtes de Waldner sur un fief agricole et viticole appartenant aux comtes de Ferrette et dont le souverain était l’évêque de Strasbourg puis de l’abbaye cistercienne de Lieu-Croissant (Doubs).
Au XVIIIe, le Comte Dagobert de Waldner de Freundstein, lieutenant général du roi, construisit un superbe château où séjournèrent de nombreux personnages importants de l’époque dont Louis XV.
Le château et le domaine sont acquis en 1825 par Jacques-Gabriel Gros, industriel textile, qui fît du domaine agricole une ferme modèle et un vignoble réputé.
Détruit lors de la première guerre mondiale pendant la bataille du Vieil Armand, le château fut reconstruit en 1925. Le domaine viticole et le château appartiennent toujours à la famille Gros.
Source: www.cavevieilarmand.com/chateau-ollwiller.html
Château Ollwiller is one of the only two châteaux in Alsace to produce wine under the name "château".
He owns the "Clos de la Tourelle", a plot decorated with an old turret, entirely planted with the Pinot Blanc grape.
The castle is the origin of the name of the Grand Cru Ollwiller.
Its vineyard has a plot of Riesling in the Grand Cru Ollwiller planted in 1925, with the "Vieilles Vigne" label.
The construction of the first Château Ollwiller in Alsace dates back to the 13th century by the counts of Waldner on an agricultural and wine-growing fiefdom belonging to the counts of Ferrette and whose sovereign was the bishop of Strasbourg and then of the Cistercian abbey of Lieu-Croissant ( Doubs).
In the 18th century, Count Dagobert de Waldner de Freundstein, lieutenant general of the king, built a superb castle where many important figures of the time stayed, including Louis XV.
The château and the estate were acquired in 1825 by Jacques-Gabriel Gros, a textile industrialist, who turned the agricultural estate into a model farm and a renowned vineyard.
Destroyed during the First World War during the Battle of Vieil Armand, the castle was rebuilt in 1925. The wine estate and the castle still belong to the Gros family.
Chiesa Millenaria..... è uno dei più begli esempi di architettura romanica del Levante ligure.
Dalle origini antichissime, nel secolo XII ebbe funzione di pieve su un territorio che comprendeva anche Rapallo e tutto il versante di Recco. La sua decadenza iniziò già nel ‘400, nel ‘600 venne abbandonata e nel 1800 venne adibita nientemeno che a fienile. Dopo i restauri di inizio Novecento, la splendida "millenaria" ' ancora li'..bellissima , nel silenzio della preghiera ... e nel nome del Padre.....
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Millenian Church...... Is one of the finest examples of Romanesque architecture of the Ligurian Riviera.
Ancient origins, in the twelfth century was used as a parish church in an area that included the whole slope of Rapallo and Recco. Its decline began already in the '400, in the' 600 was abandoned in 1800 and was used as nothing less than a barn. After the restoration of the early twentieth century, the splendid "millennial" is 'still there' .. beautiful, in the silence of prayer ... and in the name of the Father ...
The origin of these "pearls of nature" is a miracle. As I looked more closely at the ground, I saw a small blade of grass that was slightly higher than the others. For this reason, I was able to take my camera closer to the object and take this detail bigger. I was fascinated when I could look at this little wonder of nature at home.
While I was photographed, the sunrays warmed the ice crystals on the grasshammer so that they just slid down the stalk, when I finished with photography. What a wonderful experience that fascinated me once again and I could learn from nature.
This picture shows me both sides of the winter. The first is cold and somehow fancinating, the second shows me that the cold of the wafting sun has to give way. At least in the spring, when the life awakens again.
I am happy to share this here with you.
Enjoy everybody and a wonderful weekend to all of you.
Thank you for all your sympathy for my pictures here and the dear comments, which always give me great pleasure.
Have a wonderful time in the nature.
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Anamorphosis art installation by French artist Pascale Peyret; it is a terraced garden suspended in the air, where shoots of tradescantia (a.k.a. dragon tree) grow from glowing plastic (transfusion) bags
Monterano antica è una città di origine etrusca, assoggettata e plasmata dai romani prima, che ne ampliarono la rete viaria e costruirono diverse opere tra cui l’acquedotto, e dai longobardi poi. La bellezza del luogo fu ulteriormente arricchita dalla costruzioni di alcuni edifici su progetto del Bernini, come la Chiesa e il Convento di San Bonaventura, la prospiciente fontana ottagonale e la “Fontana del Leone” posta sulla facciata del Palazzo Baronale .
Una piccola curiosità: le rovine di Monterano sono state sin dagli anni ‘50 il luogo preferito da molti registi per girare le scene di grandi set cinematografici. La cornice del borgo abbandonato ha fatto da sfondo a capolavori quali “Ben Hur” con Charlton Heston o film italiani quali “Brancaleone alle Crociate” con Vittorio Gassman e “Il Marchese Del Grillo” con Alberto Sordi.
Fuchsia magellanica, commonly known as the Hummingbird fuchsia or Hardy fuchsia, is a species of flowering plant native to South America, from the temperate southern regions of Argentina and Chile to the Straits of Magellan, in general growing near the waterways.
In the southern part of Chile (Western Patagonia) it grows at the edge of the woods.
This sub-shrub can grow to 10 feet (3.0 m) in height and width in frost-free climates, and 4–5 feet (1.2–1.5 m) where is colder. The plant blossoms profusely over a long period with many small and tubular pendent flowers, in brilliant shades of red and purple, softer shades of pink and lavender, and some in white.
It is naturalized in the United Kingdom and Bolivia, regions where it was introduced for gardening. It arrived in England in the late 18th century. According to tradition, the English gardener James Lee discovered it on the windowsill of a seaman's house and bought it for a considerable sum. As early as 1793 Lee is said to have sold a large number of pieces that he had pulled from this one copy.
In Australia, the species is recorded as naturalised in the states of Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.
The species is widely used in gardening, as an ornamental plant, due to the color and shape of its flowers. Many of the existing cultivars of Fuchsia are hybrids of this species with another of the genus, generally originating in warmer climates, since their main use as a source of hybridization is due to their resistance to cold.
It is grown in temperate and subtropical gardens, or in containers on patios, balconies, and indoors, but prefers a sunny position.
The plants are quite cold-hardy compared to other species from more tropical climates, and only die in hard frosts.
The profuse pendent flowers are a nectar source attractive to hummingbirds.
This Fuchsia is one of the species hybridized in obtaining "Brinco-de-princesa" (Princess earring), the name by what is known in Brazil.
Informations by Wikipedia
In certain sense we can say that Fuchsia magellanica can be the mother of many species of fuchsias.
C'est dans sa livrée d'origine que la 754.066, ou plutôt T478.4066 assure l'Os 7416 Plzeň - Domažlice. Notez que même la numérotation sur la locomotive a été remise dans son état d'origine.
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Le rougegorge aime bien visiblement les fruits du fusain mais il se cache tellement derrière les feuilles qu'il faut beaucoup de patience et un peu de chance pour pouvoir le prendre. Ces feuilles rouges ne durent que quelques jours et c'était le bon moment pour prendre cette photo.
The place of origin of Iris Japonica seems to be China. It grows well in clusters at shaded and damp places such as bamboo grove and evergreen tree forest.
霧雨なのでちょいと車を走らせてシャガの群生地に赴きました。シャガはアイリス・ジャポニカと言う名前ですが, 原産地は中国だそうです。アヤメ科アヤメ属なので, 木陰のやや湿った場所が居心地良いと言って居ります。シャガは一体どう撮って良いのか分からないので、取り敢えず、しゃがんで撮ってみました(^^;
撮影地：伊豆市
Le origini di Villa Camastra (in seguito Villa Tasca, dei conti Tasca d'Almerita), risalgono alla metà del XV secolo. Collocata ai margini del centro storico di Palermo, è una delle residenze più suggestive dell'intera Sicilia. Immersa in una flora rigogliosa e variegata, tra palme, mandorli, ed acacie, fu prima tenuta di caccia, per essere poi trasformata in residenza-vacanze.
In una tersa giornata invernale, un merci di auto proveniente da S. Nicola di Melfi e diretto a Torino Transita a bassa velocità accanto a un casello abbandonato nei pressi di Rocchetta S.Antonio - Lacedonia al traino di una spettacolare doppia trazione con la D 445 1102 e la D 345 1106 ancora in livrea d'origine e stranamente non imbrattata dai vandali.